Sussex (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
God gave all men all earth to love, But, since our hearts are small Ordained for each one spot should ...
God gave all men all earth to love, But, since our hearts are small Ordained for each one spot should ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess ...
"Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun, Are the quietest places Under the sun." In valleys of springs and rivers, By ...
As through the wild green hills of Wyre The train ran, changing sky and shire, And far behind, a fading ...
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd, And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd, The crystal Trent ...
One night when I went down Thames' side, in London Town, A heap of rags saw I, And sat me ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Fond woman, which wouldst have thy husband die, And yet complain'st of his great jealousy; If swol'n with poison, he ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea, Where royal cities stately stand; But sweeter flows the Nith to me, Where ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
Hark! ah, the nightingale- The tawny-throated! Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! hark!-what pain! O wanderer ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
Why should I care for the men of thames Or the cheating waves of charter'd streams Or shrink at the ...
Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two & two in red & blue & ...
I wander thro' each charter'd street. Near where the charter'd Thames does flow A mark in every face I meet ...
As I stood upon London Bridge and viewed the mighty throng Of thousands of people in cabs and 'busses rapidly ...
Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused ...
The wind's on the wold And the night is a-cold, And Thames runs chill 'Twixt mead and hill. But kind ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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